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Why? Because in your case, Partition is between unallocated and C. Windows Disk Management is inflexible and allows adding ONLY if there is nothing in between.

If that picture read C, then unallocated, then Partition, you could add unallocated to C.

So you must use Partition Wizard to add unallocated to C. It's flexible in that way and give you much more control.

OK I used PW and got it done. Thanks again for the help. And I'm a bit annoyed at Crucial for not addressing such a situation in their installation kit. The average computer user probably has no idea of the steps for a successful HD transplant beyond the physical replacement.

I'm a bit annoyed at Crucial for not addressing such a situation in their installation kit. The average computer user probably has no idea of the steps for a successful HD transplant beyond the physical replacement.

A slicker way to do it is to use third party imaging, rather than cloning. You should probably look into imaging anyway as a way of recovery if your drive drops dead.

I suspect the drive manufacturer's instructions just assume most users have the simplest configuration.

You also might direct some of your annoyance at Acronis, which is often not the sharpest available tool.

Hi,
Pretty much why we would usually restore a system image and not clone

Otherwise clean installing is best on an ssd.

Average computer user here and those terms are over my head. If by clean install, you mean re-installing all the programs that were installed on the old drive over the last 3 years, that would be arduous at best taking days.

With a single partition setup like that, if you ever want to use imaging, all you have to do is make an image of the C partition. In your former situation with system on 1 partition and Windows on the other, you would have to image both partitions in order to recover from a disaster.

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